Letter from Archbishop John Williams, signed Jo. Eborac:, to his noble Cosen Mr Thomas Bulkeley at Baron Hill, ,"Barn-hill” Emphatic upon need of more money, “The Newes are not great” (surely a modern touch): refers to the Parlianent’s leaders Brereton and Myddelton, as sitting tight at Nantwich; movements of the Earl of Essex; massing of Cavaliers before the gates of Hull; "if somewhat be not donne in that Countrye [Wales or Anglesey?] for the furtherance of Mtyes service, I see great danger hanging over it". For greater information about the contents of the letter, see J.R. Phillips: Hist. Civil War in Wales, i, chap. IV. The Archbishop was very mindful of family relationships, e.g., in this letter he refers to the Earl of Lincoln as "your kinsman", knowing that Thomas Bulkeley's mother was: daughter of the Lord Burgh of Gainsborough, who had married Katherine, daughter of Edward, Earl of Lincoln. Unfortunately, the kinsman Earl of the early Civil War was Parliament partisan 7 September 1643